Person:Susan Winn (1)

The Hickman County Gazette 1946 (exact date unknown) Columbus News

(Hello Folks-Your Columbus Column is back again. Rally around the old fire-horse and we will go places, never known or seen in print before.

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Mrs. Sue Winn Monroe Born-Married-Died At Pleasant Level, Near Here-

Mrs. Sue Winn Monroe, the second daughter of the late Thomas and Kate Green Winn was born March 2nd 1866, at Pleasant Level, four miles east of Columbus, and passed away there on Saturday morning, September 21st, at 2:30 o’clock, at the age of 80 years, 6 months and 18 days.

The funeral service was at her home on Monday afternoon, the 23rd, with Rev. Aaron C. Bennett, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Columbus, Ky., officiating. Burial was in the Columbus cemetery beside her husband.

Mrs. Monroe is survived by Mrs. Vera M. Lyon, Lexington, Ky., Miss Maria Monroe, Columbus, Ky..Ben Winn Monroe, St. Louis, Mo.,and Mrs. Kitty Monroe McComb, Youngstown, Ohio. the grandchildren are Jim Lyon of Tulsa, Okla., and William M.Lyon , Lexington, Ky., and The two great-grandchildren are Jim Lyon’s Patty Sue and Mike.

"Miss Sue" was an offspring of pioneer forebears from Virginia, and during her childhood attended Moss School near Columbus, on the Clinton Road, now known as Highway 58, and the grade school at Milburn, Ky. She spent her freshman year at Ward’s Seminary, Nashville, Tennessee[5].

The following year, on Tuesday, the 26th of November, 1883, at 4 pm, at Pleasant Level, at the age of seventeen, she was wed to Ben M. Monroe, an employe of the Iron Mountain branch of the Missouri Pacific railroad[6], Rev. G.W. Flowers read the marriage ceremony.

Her married life was spent in Columbus, where her four children were born, all of whom were at her bedside during her protracted illness.

After the death of her husband, B.M.Monroe, in February 1913, ‘’Miss Sue’’ moved to LaGrange, Ga. where she took a hospital training course and practiced nursing in the Home Mission Field of the Episcopal church. In Georgia her work was in the industrial communities, but when in Virginia, she nursed the sick and injured of the lumber and coal mining camps.

Some years later Mrs, Monroe returned to Kentucky and gave her time and talent to private nursing, until her health failed and death claimed her.

Pleasant Level

Pleasant Level was the name given to these many acres during the pioneer days, after the land had been cleared of the forest timbers.

The house that still stands a Pleasant Level was built in 1832, and is one of the oldest homes in Hickman County.

The grandfather clock that was presented to Thomas Winn in 1852 by his brother-in-law, George C. Taylor, stands in the same corner today- it’s wooden weights not functioning as the family timepiece, but in calm repose as is the proper nature of an antique. LaVerne Snell

(Editor’s Note: Miss Snell’s column on the death of Mrs. Monroe and Pleasant Level was written for last week’s Gazette, but we were unable to carry it then due to lack of space. We earnestly hope to have a good Columbus Column regularly, beginning this week.)

1. ↑ Kentucky, United States. Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954. Database with images. (Kentucky: FamilySearch. Citing multiple county clerks, county courts, and historical societies.)
   [2].

   Sue Winn Monroe
   Death 21 Sep 1946, Columbus, Hickman, Kentucky, United States
   Female, Age 80
   Father's Name Thomas Winn
   Mother's Name Kate Green
   Spouse's Name Ben Monroe
   Source: FHL Film #2,073,570

2.   Death Certificate:
   [3]
   Signed by Mary Monroe McComb,of Youngstown Oh. Daughter.
3.   The Weekly Soliphone, Paragould Ark. Friday, August 20 1915. Local News. Mrs. Sue Monroe of LaGrange, Ga., who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. B.M. Lyon, left this morning for Columbus, Ky., where she will visit for two weeks before returning to Georgia. Mrs. Lyon and son Jim, accompanied Mrs. Monroe and will visit in Kentucky for ten days.[4]